At some point hitherto, Will Yardley hath spake thusly: > Christian Ordig wrote: > > > > Filesystem: UFS, mounted sync > [...] > > Are there others having such poor performance with Maildir as Benjamin > > has? And with which filesystem OS combinations? > > our office mail machine is (unfortunately) linux with ext2, and i can > attest to the fact that Maildir is pretty slow on ext2.
And most other filesystems... Try it on FAT. =8^) > i haven't tried copying one of my large Maildir folders over to one of > my machines (FreeBSD, UFS filesystem with soft-updates) to see how much > faster it is, but i've heard that the difference is pretty large. But how does it compare to mbox on the same FS? I'll bet it's still significantly slower. -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org
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